Grand avenues : the story of the French visionary who designed Washington, D.C.
2007
923.544 L563ber 2007 MB
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Title
Grand avenues : the story of the French visionary who designed Washington, D.C.
Edition
1st ed
Published
New York Pantheon Books, c2007
Description
xii, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
923.544 L563ber 2007 MB
System Control No.
(OCoLC)70267127
Note
Maps on lining papers
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index
Contents: A note on L'Enfant's English -- A pedestal waiting for a superstructure -- An infinity of small moments -- A powerful friend among the princes of the earth -- The remembrance of my former services -- In every respect advantageously situated -- A plan wholly new -- The wheel to give motion to the machine -- The whole leveled and thrown to the ground -- Measures of the most immediate moment -- An implicit conformity to his will -- The disappointment of absolute dues -- Getting the go by -- A share in the undertaking -- The assurance of things hoped for
Society of the Cincinnati: p. 51-55
SOC Library mentioned in Acknowledgments; illustrations on p. 52 & 53 (SOC eagle & diploma) credited to SOC
Author's inscribed copy.
L2007G53
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index
Contents: A note on L'Enfant's English -- A pedestal waiting for a superstructure -- An infinity of small moments -- A powerful friend among the princes of the earth -- The remembrance of my former services -- In every respect advantageously situated -- A plan wholly new -- The wheel to give motion to the machine -- The whole leveled and thrown to the ground -- Measures of the most immediate moment -- An implicit conformity to his will -- The disappointment of absolute dues -- Getting the go by -- A share in the undertaking -- The assurance of things hoped for
Society of the Cincinnati: p. 51-55
SOC Library mentioned in Acknowledgments; illustrations on p. 52 & 53 (SOC eagle & diploma) credited to SOC
Author's inscribed copy.
L2007G53
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